Indian firms may have some unique advantages when it comes to innovating, feels M S Krishnan who, along with management guru C K Prahlad, has written The New Age of Innovation&#39;.

`Indian companies don`t have any legacy mindset in management`

Business Standard

Microsoft India is knocking on the doors of adulthood, hoping to find its own identity as distinct from its Redmond parent.

Coming of age

In Followership, Barbara Kellerman asserts the age of the all-powerful executive has ended.

Leaders and followers

&nbsp;A growing list of brands is dropping Sachin Tendulkar. Is this the onset of sanity in celebrity-related advertising? 
&nbsp;Suhel Seth is many things to many people, so many things to so many people that Outlook magazine once wondered in print how many Suhel Seths there were.

Shrunk Sachin

Sitting at her lunch table in Mumbai's sprawling Four Seasons hotel, renowned organisational development and management guru and president of TMI US (a human resource development company), Janelle Barlow, gears up for a hectic week of travel and seminars in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore on customer relations.

`An emotional bond is most compelling`

The one with the curious name is the runaway leader, setting benchmarks in programming, standardisation and localisation.

Plenty in a name

First, the disclaimer: this article definitely does not intend to undermine business school education! Au contraire, I believe business school provides awareness on certain professional disciplines we keep learning all our life.

How to excel at work

Since the appearance of its initial slogan  "Just do it"  Nike has cultivated the universal values associated with sports and the Olympic movement: surpassing oneself, determination, competition, accomplishment.

Brand identity

&nbsp;My two years In business school could be summed up in one sentence. I learned to be competitive, I became more confident and the institute prepared me to face a tough life ahead.

Think as a leader

Bill McDermott, SAP president and CEO (Americas and APJ), is credited with re-energising SAP America when he joined the company in 2002.

`India is the world`s value creation centre`

William BissellFab India's community-owned companies are converting artisans into assets while sharing the benefits of growth with them.

Weaving a new fabric

&nbsp;Wipro sides with Peter Drucker to appoint joint CEOs. 
&nbsp;Are two heads better than one when it comes to succession? Much depends on which school of thought you subscribe to.

The power of two

In a bid to increase private sector investment for its incubation projects, the country's premier engineering institute  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay  has recruited an investment banker as Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), its incubation centre.

IIT Bombay appoints CEO to further its incubation cause

Consumer confidence is a measure of the market conditions and a rise and fall in it is an indication of the direction the economy is taking.

Confidence drops, but optimism high

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<LI>When and where was the term "superstore" first used? The term superstore was first used in 1968, when Tesco opened its store in Crawley, West Sussex, England.

Answers to last week`s quiz

In the two years since becoming CEO, Malvinder Mohan Singh has systematically purged risk out of Ranbaxy's model.

Malav at work

&nbsp;Most of us step out of B-school with a spirit to conquer the world. As a fresh graduate, the only thing on my mind was to outshine my compatriots.

Nuts and bolts

Shoppers Stop has moved unobtrusively to expand its network to 24 stores in 12 cities and establish itself as the largest chain of departmental stores in India.

'We will be more fashionable'

There's a big reason why Punam Anand Keller is in India  the guilt factor.

`Handle employees with care`

&nbsp;Google has taken to India with a vengeance and built communities. The time has come monetise.

Community service

As the war to attract and retain talent rages, companies are using a variety of new, innovative hooks to catch the right talent.

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